Maria snaps her mouth shut, halting the instinctive reply in English. There was no reason for her to feel embarrassed when she hadn't been staring at his missing limb—had barely noticed it, in fact—and therefore no reason to act like a chastened schoolgirl.
"I haven't heard someone talk this language," she said in halting Arabic, recalling everything she'd learned from her time in the Holy Land. "Most imPorts are from far away—and the future."
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Maria snaps her mouth shut, halting the instinctive reply in English. There was no reason for her to feel embarrassed when she hadn't been staring at his missing limb—had barely noticed it, in fact—and therefore no reason to act like a chastened schoolgirl.
"I haven't heard someone talk this language," she said in halting Arabic, recalling everything she'd learned from her time in the Holy Land. "Most imPorts are from far away—and the future."